How are you guys using the sport mode?

I just turned 15.5K miles....during most of it, I always had it on. Now, I am finding that I have smoother shifts, at least around town, without it. Interested to learn how you use it. Thanks, Carlos

 

Hitting the sport button is like turning on the ignition for me, can't move without it.

 

I'm the same way!

 

Me too truly dont like to drive with out it. I may take heat for saying this but beeing that I have drove the car with it on for 10k miles, the car feels slugish to me with it turned off.

 

Because the Sport mode causes sharper throttle drop off, I think it is a matter of getting used to the different (faster) throttle when shifting with Sport mode ON.

 

In slower shifts like around town it may be smoother with the sport OFF becuase as Bill says the throttle is less sensitive and smoother, so throttle inputs are more progressive, which is what you seem to find.

In turn, what I find is that the sport chono makes my heel and toe shifting much easier in slower rinving since its easier to blip the throttle with it ON. The 997 has the brake pedal too high and its harder to reach for the throttle in heel-toe than in the 996. In the 996 it was easier. In fast driving, since you have to brake much harder, it doesn't matter if the sport is ON since the brake pedal sinks more and you can reach the throttle with ease, but when you are not braking hard, the sport chrono really helps.

The time I turn the sport OFF is in high-speed highway driving since the lower threshold of PSM of the sport mode is much more dangerous in case you have any incident at those speeds, so I leave it off just in case. At slower speeds you are likely not to need the full PSM but at autobahn speeds and inertias I think its worth to have the full electronic stability control setup.

 

I wish there was a way to get the improved throttle response and keep the PSM in full child-mode.

 

the roads around here (excl autoroute) are in such bad condition that with the sport suspension 'on' up its uncomfortable. so tend to use the sport for suspension on autoroute and use both when i am having a bit of a burn on windy roads.

 

i thought it was part of starting the car

 

If you aren't doing any winding road driving, what's the point of leaving sport mode on? I can't see any benefit to being bounced around unless you need the extra damping for curvy road work. I live in the Los Angeles area, and our roads get worse every year, so maybe that gives me a different perspective.

Michael

 

I think that a lot of the people are selecting sport mode but than selecting the "soft" setting on the dumpers so they get the faster engine responses but the same suspension settings

 

Also, there are others like me that have the -20mm sport chasis with rear LSD, so the sport chrono button does not affect my suspension.